The Nihilos: Trash Player Who Rewrote Reality

The forge within the Vessel burned hotter than any star. Hephaestus stood alone, surrounded by floating schematics of systems, sublayers, soul cores, and memory trees. He wasn't just building a weapon.

He was building a system.

> "The old world depended on balance. Nihilos defied it. I will perfect it."

He raised his hammer, glowing with celestial runes long lost to time. Sparks flew. But they weren't sparks of metal — they were fragments of code and soul.

Raven stood before the mirror again. The flame in the sky had faded. But his HUD blinked for the first time in months.

> [You Have Been Summoned] [Divine Forge Request: Accept Invocation?]

> "What the hell is this...?"

Ava stepped in. "It's calling you. The flame from earlier — it wasn't an attack. It was a signal."

He hesitated… then clicked [Accept].

He appeared — not in a dungeon. Not in a battlefield.

But in a realm where constellations moved like gears. Stars pulsed like code nodes. And in the center, hammer in hand, stood Hephaestus — taller than any man, older than any story.

> "You carry a broken core," the god said, his voice ringing like molten metal.

"Nihilos was a prototype. A rebel. But you… deserve more."

He held up a glowing sphere — swirling with red, gold, and black light.

> [SYSTEM CORE: HEPHAESTOS-EX (Godforged Class Architecture)]

> "I will forge you a new system. But you must survive the reset."

Raven narrowed his eyes. "And if I don't?"

> "Then Nihilos will consume your soul. And this world will burn."

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> [Core Injection: Initiated] [Burn Sequence Started – 0.02% → 5.4%]

Raven screamed. Not from pain — but from the feeling of being rebuilt.

Lines of divine code ran through his spine. Old permissions were erased. New fragments — classes from forgotten worlds — embedded in his mind.

> [NIHILOS SYSTEM: Disassembled] [HEPHAESTOS-EX: Installed]

> [Class: ??? (Forge-locked)] [Trait: System-Bound Realitycraft Enabled] [Skill: World Thread Grasp – You may now alter the law beneath magic]

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Scene 4: Aftermath

Raven fell to his knees. The realm faded.

He was back in his room. Ava by his side. But something had changed.

His interface? Sleek. Alive. Breathing with light.

And one final message blinked.

> [You are now bound to the Divine System.] [Use it wisely… or not at all.]

Inside Raven's body, something stirred. The moment the Hephaestos-EX Core finished binding to his soul, an anomaly rippled through the divine forge.

> [Warning: Foreign Core Detected] [Legacy System: NIHILOS – Inactive But Anchored] [System Conflict Detected… Attempting Separation...]

Hephaestus, standing within the Divine Realm Forge, narrowed his eyes.

> "That shouldn't be possible… I erased it."

But Nihilos hadn't been deleted.

It had hidden.

A black stream of code began rising from Raven's spine — swirling around the golden Hephaestus core. It didn't attack. It merged.

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> [New Process Formed: NIHIL-EX] [Divine Code Overwritten by Legacy Ghost Fragments] [System Fusion: Irreversible] [Resulting System: NIHILOS-FORGE]

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Raven screamed again — this time not from pain but from awareness.

He saw both systems. The lawful god-code of Hephaestus. The glitch-born, fragmented defiance of Nihilos. Neither dominant. Neither submitting.

They were syncing.

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Inside the Divine Realm – Hephaestus POV

The divine forge trembled for the first time in eternity.

Hephaestus stepped back as Raven's silhouette floated, suspended in raw reality threads, surrounded by a dual-colored flame — half holy gold, half glitched black-red.

> "This… has never happened before."

The boy was forging his own system, outside of the god's will.

Hephaestus reached out, trying to sever the divine link—

> [Error: Divine Connection Sealed by User Will] [This Vessel has become a Forge of His Own]

The God of the Forge cursed under his breath.

> "You idiot boy... you're turning into your own pantheon."

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Inside Raven's Mind

Raven stood in a void — watching two forces spiral around him.

He didn't choose either.

He accepted both.

And in doing so, a new system architecture was born.

> [System Name: NIHIL-FORGE] [Class: ??? (Unstable God-Class Prototype)] [Trait: Dual-Architect – You may forge systems or corrupt them] [Passive: Divine Instability – Each use rewrites a rule of reality] [Skill Unlocked: Authority Recast – Replace any system rule in a 10m radius]

He opened his eyes — glowing like twin stars of opposite fate.

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Back in the real world, the EvoCore HQ server farm surged.

Every monitor blinked the same phrase in divine glyphs and corrupted fragments:

> [SOMETHING ELSE HAS BEEN FORGED]

And Hephaestus, still watching, whispered with awe and fear:

> "You were never just a vessel… you're a forge."